The combination of injection moulding and additive manufacturing (AM) allows for mass customisation, as used in the production of Arburg’s smart luggage tags.

Katrin Schütz, State Secretary for Economic Affairs for Baden-Württemberg, said: "The production of 'smart' luggage tags offers impressive proof of how Arburg products can be used to implement Industry 4.0 in practice, customising high-volume parts in batch sizes down to a single unit and thereby adding value during the manufacturing process."